Reviews – Code Of Honor

Dr. Rachel A. Schipper, Director of Libraries
The Society of the Four Arts
“Robert Macomber’s Code Of Honor, highlighting protagonist Rear Admiral Peter Wake, illustrates in historical detail the complex impacts, intrigues, and outcomes involved in naval intelligence. Always balancing the cost to human life, Wake reveals the myriad of personal, societal, and cultural motivations involved when political alliances shift and conflict ensues.”

RADM Tony Cothron, USN, Retired
62nd Director of Naval Intelligence
“Robert Macomber’s latest book in his Naval Intelligence fictional series is both exciting, educational and timely. His hero, Rear Admiral Peter Wake, gets sent to Czarist Russia and ends up sailing with the Russian Baltic Fleet to the Pacific where it is destroyed by the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Tsushima Straits in 1905. If all of that excitement isn’t enough, we get to accompany Wake on his several thousand mile journey back to Europe from Vladivostok on the Trans-Siberian railroad and by sailing through the Black Sea. As ever, Macomber’s careful research and exciting narrative provides a compelling story. It’s a must read for fans of Peter Wake and anyone who loves sea stories and Russian history!”

Larry B. Lambert
Author and Virtual Mirage Blog [April 16, 2022]
For complete review, visit – https://www.virtualmirage.org/code-of-honor-book-review
“If you enjoy good historical fiction, I know that you’ll enjoy this book. If you’ve been reading the Honor Series, this is just one more home run in a grand slam series.”

Michael Dorf
Author & CEO/Founder City Winery
“FIVE STARS – Another hard to put down book … Peter Wake might have more grey hairs, but the travel into the past of politics, war, and insights keeps you on the edge page after page. The book reads too fast and I don’t want to wait a full year for the next one. Super enjoyable and highly recommend this and entire series!!”

Thomas Hines
Book Reviewer, QUARTERDECK-Maritime Literature & Art Review
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…. “Superbly detailed, CODE OF HONOR introduces the reader to seldom mentioned pivotal events at the beginning of the twentieth century in Russia and Europe that changed the course of history….” 

Loyd Uglow
“EDITORS’ CHOICE” distinction in Historical Novels Review, international magazine
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“….Macomber writes with an easy assurance that only comes through deep historical familiarity with the time period and thorough identification with the protagonist. The book is reminiscent of earlier series on fictional naval heroes, such as Horatio Hornblower, Richard Bolitho, and Jack Aubrey. The admiral tells his story in first-person, and he comes across well as a believable professional military man of the period, with his own fears, faults, and talents. I just may have a new favorite author.”

The Navy Review / The Navy League Australia
pg. 32 VOL. 84 NO. 4 Book Review
“….The Peter Wake series is a reminder both of constancy and that change is the real constant, at the same time providing a reminder of where we have been – a record that charts both successes and failures in the tradition of the great maritime series. An American Hornblower. Peter Wake is the sailor’s sailor, … A fun maritime romp and summer read.”

Maritime Review by Vicky Viray-Mendoza 27 Sept 2022
publication of the Maritime League, Philippines
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RECOMMENDATION: Code of Honor – A novel about RADM Peter Wake USN, during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, authored by Robert N. Macomber, and published by USNI is a gripping story about intelligence work by a trio of U.S. Navy and Marine officers set during the historical Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05…. It opens the mind of the readers to both the necessity and the deadly perils of espionage on land and at sea. Although clandestine missions may come with the thrill and exuberance of winning, it may also beget instant death once your role is detected. Survival is a matter of having the loyal and trusted people around to warn you at the right moment, with enough time to escape… truly difficult to put this book down.“

Philip K. Jason
Professor Emeritus, United States Naval Academy
Author of Acts and Shadows: The Vietnam War in American Literary Culture
“Macomber is today’s foremost practitioner of a fascinating subgenre – —historical fiction of the nautical variety. Building his series on the imagined autobiography of Peter Wake, he’s given readers a vivid, multi-dimensional hero. Macomber makes the remarkable times he portrays glow. This latest title is no exception. History comes alive.”

Reader Review / Retired Teacher
“Just another masterpiece from Robert Macomber, to keep you up all night, forgetting to eat or sleep, until you’ve turned the last page. “Code of Honor” focuses on the Russo-Japanese War in the early years of the 20th century, and was written before the current debacle in Ukraine began, but the parallels are striking. The players are different of course, but so much is the same. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. It is so hard to believe that Peter Wake was not a real person. But apart from Peter, his family, and Rork, all the other characters in the book are real, historical figures, accurately portrayed, and the history is deeply researched. In this book, and the 15 preceding volumes, Robert Macomber has captured a world. The people, politics, cultures, petty grievences, technological innovations and shortcomings are all brought to life. What more can I say? Read the book, and then the entire series.“